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vfs: deny fallocate() on directory 

There was an obscure use case of fallocate of directory inode
in the vfs helper with the comment:
"Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation
 for directories or not."

But there is no in-tree file system that implements fallocate
for directory operations.

Deny an attempt to fallocate a directory with EISDIR error.

This change is needed prior to converting sb_start_write()
to  file_start_write(), so freeze protection is correctly
handled for cases of fallocate file and blockdev.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Amir Goldstein 2017-01-31 10:34:55 +02:00 committed by Miklos Szeredi
parent af7bd4dc13
commit 9e79b13263
1 changed files with 4 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -301,12 +301,10 @@ int vfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
if (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode))
return -ESPIPE;
/*
* Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation
* for directories or not.
*/
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) &&
!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -EISDIR;
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode))
return -ENODEV;
/* Check for wrap through zero too */